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Harry Jackson (from left), Bill Jackson, and Marci Jackson, all family relatives to one of the teenage victims from last Friday's shooting outside
Rosemary Anderson High School, visit the north Portland school Monday to support the students. The community-based alternative school is
part o f the Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center.
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Dozens of tiny white snowflake earrings hung to
the ears and jackets of students at Rosemary Ander
son High School Monday, a symbol of solidarity in
the wake of a shooting on Friday just outside the
school that wounded four teenagers.
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portunities Industrialization Center in north Port
land, handed out the snowflakes to community mem
bers, faculty, staff, and students alike as police,
community leaders and others reached out to make
the students feel safe.
The supporters included three members of the
same African-American family, relatives of one of
the teenagers injured in the shooting, David Jack-
son-Lyday, 20.
His grandfather, Bill Jackson, walked the campus
along with Jackson’s sister Portland Police Officer
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